First Minister John Swinney has described the general election result as “very, very difficult and damaging” for the SNP, as Labour made dramatic gains in Scotland.
As his party suffered a series of big losses, Mr Swinney said there would need to be “soul searching” following a “very poor result”.
Mr Swinney continued: “We’ve got to listen carefully, we’ve got to listen attentively, to what the public are saying to us in this election result and on a variety of other topics and questions around the country.”
The SNP was defending 48 seats of the 57 in Scotland but is projected to see that reduced to just eight seats – its worst result since 2010.
Labour made gains across the central belt, with most of their results following vote share swings of about 20% from the SNP.
In Glasgow, Labour took all six seats from the SNP.
And in the capital, the SNP’s Joanna Cherry lost her Edinburgh South West seat to Labour, as did Tommy Sheppard in Edinburgh East and Musselburgh.
Former Daily Record journalist Torcuil Crichton won Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) for Labour, while the party also made gains in Alloa and Grangemouth, Stirling and Strathallan and three Fife constituencies.
The Conservatives, who fell behind Reform UK in several Scottish seats, kept Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
The Liberal Democrats comfortably won Edinburgh West, picked up Mid Dunbartonshire from the SNP and retained North East Fife.
SNP deputy Westminster leader Kirsten Oswald was ousted in East Renfrewshire by Blair McDougall – the former head strategist of the Better Together campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
Stephen Flynn, the party’s Westminster leader, clung on to his Aberdeen South seat but told BBC Scotland it was a “very difficult and bleak night” for the SNP and that the party had to learn from it.
“There’s the Starmer tsunami, the fact that people want change in Downing Street and we’ve undoubtedly been squeezed in that context,” he added.
Former first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon told ITV: “This is not a good night for the SNP on these numbers and there will be a lot of questions that need to be asked as we come out of it.”
Alex Salmond, who preceded Ms Sturgeon as SNP leader and first minister, said the “slaughter of the SNP” was not due to its support for Scottish independence.
He added: “How could it be? The SNP did not even campaign on it.”
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said he was confident his party would win a majority in Scotland.
“This is a changed Scottish Labour Party and tomorrow that work for change begins,” he told BBC Scotland News.
His party is aiming for a major revival, having won just one seat at the last general election in 2019.
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross described it as a “historically bad night” for the Tories.
“There is no shying away from that at all and there will be a huge amount of reflection on the campaign and also clearly the last few years,” he told BBC Scotland News.
“It has been particularly difficult and there is no denying that.”
Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Conservative leader, told Sky News the exit poll predicted a “massacre” for the Tories.
However, she said the projections were better than earlier internal Tory figures.
The Lib Dems returned four MPs north of the border at the last election.
Ex-Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said the party was set to become a “substantial force again”.
